... . OLD DRURY LANE CHRISTMAS ANNUAL,--The contributors to this Annual include many well-know names, and the illustrations, the work or such artists as Adelaide Claxton, A.Chasemore. G. Pilotell. and Geo. Crutikshank, are well in hand with the letter-press. Of course the whole production is one of advertisement for the forthcoming pantomime of Cinderella which Mr. A. Harris places upon bis stage ...

... CONCERTS.-- At the tenth Crystal Palace Concert the pro gramme, besides a too rarely heard symphony by Haydn (first of the famous Salomon twelve), and, glorious as it is, the over-frequently present ...

... Theatres CYNICAL observers of the tendencies of the modern drama can hardly have failed to draw inferences of an unflattering kind from the circumstance that the numerous published criticisms upon the ...

... NONE who read Mehalah are likely to forget that strangely powerful tragedy, resembling a transfer of the scene of Wuthering Heights from the Yorkshire Moors to the Essex Salt Marshes. John Herrin ...

... . FOR the fortnight which intervenes between Mr. Terry's return to the Gaiety and the production there of the new burlesque-drama, recourse is had to The Rocket, a three-act comedy by Mr. Pinero. The so-called comedy proves to be a farce in three acts, and a very good farce too. Its hero is a sort of Digby Grant, with a dash of Jingle and Jeremy Diddler, who, as the Chevalier Walkinshaw, wins ...

... . up tne re- opening ot Toole s theatre, which took place last Saturday, there is not very much to be said beyond noting the fact that in Artful Cards and Stage- Dora the popular comedian presented two established successes. After Mr. Burnand's comedy Mr. Toole made the following speech, which sufficiently indicates his future arrangements -While in the country I have read and seen the ...

... . IT scarcely seems to have been the desire of Mr. Pinero to please the playgoers attracted to the theatre by his new comedy, Lords and Commons. One of the critics of the play has spoken of it as giving actual pain to its audience; and painful such a study of the manners and natures of well-born and presumably Well-bred folk would doubtless be if it were not so supremely ridiculous. It would, ...

... . DURING the past and final week of Silver Guilt at the Strand, that amusing parody has been preceded by a new farcical comedy, Deceivers Ever, in place of Vice Versa. The author of Deceivers Ever, Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman, has hit upon a funny though very artificial situation for the basis of his piece. A couple of elderly gentlemen, Mr. Wheezer and General Phibbs, find it necessary in their ...

... . IT is certainly coming to an issue of some exciting preten sions. I knew it would, and, now that the thing has really caught fire, there is no knowing where it may spread to before it is consumed and disappears in its own smoke. How would you like to open your morning paper some fine day not far off, and, instead of finding important news from Timbuctoo or Greenland's icy mountains, see a ...

... ALL IN A GARDEN FAIR (3 vols.: Chatto and Windus) is among the most finished of Mr. Besant's works, as well as among the most characteristic of its author. Without having any very strong central int ...

... V. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD CRITIC, of a decidedly bookish bent, turned away the other day from a pile of high-art picture-books of the Greenaway school, and declared Those are all about stupi ...

... . Me. Henry Noedbloh's matinee took place at the Gaiety on Wednesday morning last, the principal item of the entertain ment provided being the first and second acts of Era Diavolo the opera by Auber, not the burlesque by Byron. The per formance was an unequal one, some of its features, such as the Zerlina of Madame Rose Hersee, being thoroughly artistic and satisfactory, whilst others, which ...